Hrabina Louise Charlotte Schwerin (1684-1732) i Regina Salomea z Rusieckich Pilsztynowa (1718-po 1763) - w poszukiwaniu nowej ojczyzny i miejsca w społeczeństwie.
Countess Louise Charlotte Schwerin (1684–1732) and Salomea from Rusiecki Pilsztynowa (1718–after 1763) – in search of a new homeland and place in society

Summary/Abstract: The article is an analysis of the attitude and life path of two women from the 18th century who were forced to leave their own homeland and started looking for a new place in life. The first is Countess Charlotte Louise von Heyden (after her marriage Schwerin), the second is Regina Salomea Pilsztynowa. Both left a rich testimony of their life adventures in the form of diaries. Pilsztynowa wrote her work in Polish in 1760. The Countess von Schwerin in French, probably in the years 1723–1724. Both found themselves in a foreign world and both had to make an attempt to tame this foreign world, to adapt to new conditions. Both described in their diaries how they prepared for their new role in the foreign world. The authors of the article used the categories “self-identification” and “external identification” introduced by sociologist and historian Roger Brubaker and Frederick Cooper in their work Beyond identity. This allowed, on the one hand, to observe changes in the attitude of Schwerin and Salomea Pilsztynowa, and, on the other hand, to point out the tensions between old habits and customs and the need for new choices. What the two heroines have in common is certainly the strength of their personalities, which allowed them, against family, social and cultural pressures, to break habits and conventions and consistently follow their own plan for life.

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